Neighbourhoods and social infrastructure: place, belonging and interactions (3)
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Date: 3/27/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM Mountain Time
Room: Centennial Ballroom A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Type: Paper,
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Urban Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Alan Latham UCL Department of Geography, University College London
Danielle Drozdzewski Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University
Chair(s):
Alan Latham UCL Department of Geography, University College London
Danielle Drozdzewski Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University
Description:
Social infrastructure in the neighbourhood, including its spatiality, morphology and layout makes place. Social infrastructures in the neighbourhood allow people to gather. They can be places that support community life; places of interactions between neighbours, close contacts and relatives, to spend time together and to care for each other; places that encourage people to exercise, play sport, dance; and, places that allow people to live comfortably alone and alongside one another.
Neighbourhoods, then, can be considered as a lively, multilayered locales, imbued with emotions, meanings and social connections that people in the neighbourhood attach to place. Key to our thinking about the role of social infrastructure is to think-with the place-specific conceptual, temporal, and spatial contexts afforded by tangible materials structures, as well as their generative capacity for belonging and everyday interactions in the neighbourhood too.
For the planned paper sessions at the AAG we are seeking proposals that address the following questions, that can make empirical, conceptual or theoretical contributions to the emerging literature on social infrastructures in the neighbourhood within human geography and the social sciences more generally:
• What counts as social infrastructure?
• What characterises relationships between social infrastructure and place attachment and belonging in the neighbourhood?
• How does neighbourhood-based social infrastructure facilitate and nuance everyday interactions among neighbours?
• What can scholarship on social infrastructure tell us about ‘infrastructure’?
• How are different social infrastructures provided and maintained?
• How can social infrastructures be designed to invite in diverse uses, and include marginalised groups?
By bringing together a wide range of scholars addressing these critical questions, this session aims to explore the role of social infrastructures in supporting everyday life in the neighbourhood It raises critical questions about the design, provision, and maintenance of spaces and facilities near where people live that can support and sustain a rich and varied social, public life. The sessions will also be a space for debate around the different meanings and use of social infrastructure, and of contemporary work on neighbourhoods.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Neil Turnbull |
UK local government justification, critique, and resistance to the transfer of social infrastructure |
Alison Bain |
Queering social infrastructure in the suburbs: photographic narrations of everyday queer and trans micropolitics |
Susan Moore |
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, Misinformation and Dissenting Publics: Crisis of Hyper Local Civic Democracy at the Metropolitan Scale |
Shao-Yu Huang |
A ten-minute fold of everydayness: municipal rubbish management as a critical field of informal social infrastructure |
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Neighbourhoods and social infrastructure: place, belonging and interactions (3)
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/27/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM MT
Room: Centennial Ballroom A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Alan Latham UCL Department of Geography, University College London
alan.latham@ucl.ck.uk
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